Job Description
Brightstar is an innovative, forward-thinking global leader in lottery that builds on our renowned expertise in delivering secure technology and producing reliable, comprehensive solutions for our customers. As a premier pure play global lottery company, our best-in-class lottery operations, retail and digital solutions, and award-winning lottery games enable our customers to achieve their goals, fulfill player needs and distribute meaningful benefits to communities. We have a longstanding commitment to Responsible Gaming (RG) that is engrained within our core business and the products we offer to customers and players worldwide. Brightstar has a well-established local presence and is a trusted partner to governments and regulators around the world, creating value by adhering to the highest standards of service, integrity, and responsibility. Brightstar has approximately 6,000 employees. For more information, please visit www.brightstarlottery.com.
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced Director of Software Engineering to lead the engineering organization responsible for the development, scalability, and long-term evolution of one of business-critical products within BrightStar’s lottery technology portfolio.
This role combines strategic technology leadership, people management, product delivery ownership, and strong cross-functional collaboration. The successful candidate will be accountable for building and leading high-performing engineering teams, driving predictable delivery of the product roadmap, ensuring technical excellence, and partnering closely with Product, Architecture, Delivery, Operations, Security, and senior business stakeholders.
Responsibilities
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Lead end-to-end engineering function (development, QA, DevOps, operations)
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Define and execute engineering strategy aligned with product and business goals
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Build and manage high-performing teams (Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, Engineers, QA)
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Partner with Product to translate business needs into scalable solutions
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Oversee planning, estimation, dependencies, and release governance
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Identify and remove delivery bottlenecks
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Track and improve metrics (cycle time, defects, reliability, performance, team health)
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Balance feature delivery with technical debt, modernization, and stability
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Lead architectural direction and engineering standards
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Drive cloud-native, modular, and scalable platform design
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Ensure systems are secure, resilient, maintainable, and observable
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Promote modern practices (CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing, observability)
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Align with Architecture, Security, Cloud, and Operations teams
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Improve software quality, incident prevention, and root-cause analysis
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Ensure compliance with security, data protection, and regulatory requirements
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Act as key engineering partner for Product, Operations, Sales, and leadership
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Communicate plans, risks, trade-offs, and progress clearly
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Support customer discussions requiring senior technical expertise
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Collaborate across global and distributed teams
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Contribute to strategic planning, budgeting, and prioritization
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Define engineering organization structure for current and future needs
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Recruit, retain, and develop strong engineering talent
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Set performance expectations and support career growth
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Build an inclusive, accountable, high-performance culture
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Manage external partners, vendors, and contractors
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Own workforce planning, budgeting
Qualifications
- 10–15+ years of experience in software engineering, including strong background in product-oriented development
- At least 5 years leading engineering teams, including managers, tech leads, or multi-team structures
- Experience in senior leadership roles such as Director of Engineering, Head of Engineering, Senior Engineering Manager, or VP Engineering
- Proven track record of delivering complex, scalable, reliable, and secure software products or platforms
- Strong knowledge of modern software architecture, SDLC, agile delivery, DevOps, CI/CD, and test automation
- Experience managing engineering delivery in product organizations (e.g., SaaS, fintech, gaming/lottery, ticketing, e-commerce, payments, enterprise software, or high-volume transactional systems)
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure
- Hands-on experience with microservices, APIs, distributed systems, event-driven architecture, or real-time processing
- Ability to make sound technical and prioritization decisions in complex, ambiguous environments
- Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, performance management, and organizational design
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including working with executive leadership
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- Master’s or MBA is a plusBased in Warsaw, Poland, with required on-site presence (hybrid model)
Success Profile
• Leading Complexity
• Leading People
• Leading the Business
• Leading Self
This information reflects Brightstar Lottery’s good-faith estimate of compensation for this position at the time of publication. Actual compensation will be determined in accordance with the applicable collective agreement and internal compensation policies. Factors that we consider include, but are not limited to, role, career level, performance, skills, level of expertise, experience, location, market competitiveness, and internal equity. The estimated starting compensation range is 352,304 zł – 542,006 zł. The Company will comply with all local pay requirements and collective bargaining agreements, where applicable.
In addition to base salary, employees may be eligible for an annual performance-based bonus with a set target (20% of salary) aligned with individual and company performance. Eligibility and payout may be prorated based on date of hire and service during the performance period or sales commission.
Other Benefits Offered:
- Paid time off
- Health insurance, life insurance, and disability insurance
- Opportunities to volunteer your time to company-driven initiatives, employee networks or organizations of your choice
- Variety of well-being programs
- Retirement benefits
- Additional benefits available depending on the seniority of the role
This position is governed by collective bargaining agreement, which regulates the main terms and conditions of employment, including minimum salary levels, classification, working hours, leave, and other employment rights.
Our hiring process is conducted in line with principles of pay transparency and equal pay. We do not request or rely on candidates’ salary history during the selection process.
All Brightstar employees have a role in information security. Annual training will be assigned and required as appropriate.